John Paton Davies, Jr. Quotes

John Paton Davies Jr. was an American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient. He was one of the China Hands, whose careers in the Foreign Service were ended by McCarthyism and the reaction to the loss of China. Wikipedia

✵ 6. April 1908 – 23. December 1999

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John Paton Davies, Jr. Quotes

“I recommended that we establish contact with [the Chinese communists]. We had established contact through a military mission there but that we did not … we should not withdraw recognition from Chiang Kai-shek at that time, but we should recognize the inevitability of the loss, Chiang's loss to Mao, and that therefore we should, establish relations of the type that I described that we had with warlords, with the communists, and that we have, say, a consulate there, so that there was a political contact in addition to the military. That, of course, did not go down.”

John Paton Davies, Jr.

Source: interview http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-15/davies1.html

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